THIS is the devastating moment a deadly game of “chicken” went tragically wrong when a mum ran over and killed her three-year-old son in her giant 4×4. Footage shows Lexus Stagg, 26, reversing her two-and-a-half tonne Lincoln Navigator in a parking lot near her apartment as her three children run towards the vehicle. However, when […]
THIS is the devastating moment a deadly game of “chicken” went tragically wrong when a mum ran over and killed her three-year-old son in her giant 4×4.
Footage shows Lexus Stagg, 26, reversing her two-and-a-half tonne Lincoln Navigator in a parking lot near her apartment as her three children run towards the vehicle.
However, when the kids are just a few feet from the SUV it suddenly darts forward trapping one of the kids under the right tyre.
Police say Stagg then continued to drive forward, running over the boy again with her rear right tyre, according to local reports.
The boy, whose name was not released, died at Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital in Houston hours later.
You should be playing Peek-A-Boo with a 3-year-old instead of forcing him to try and dodge a 5,600-pound deadly weapon
Sean Teare of Harris County District Attorney’s office
“You should be playing Peek-A-Boo with a 3-year-old instead of forcing him to try and dodge a 5,600-pound deadly weapon,” said Sean Teare of Harris County District Attorney’s office.
And District Attorney Kim Ogg added: “Cars aren’t toys and playing chicken with your kids isn’t a game.”
The woman told police she simply didn’t realise that the child was still in the path of her vehicle, reported the news station KHOU-TV.
She is then said to have added she thought she had only run over a speed bump.
Her two other children have been sent to stay with relatives while she continues to be questioned by cops.
Stagg was arrested and charged with criminally negligent homicide following the tragedy in Houston, Texas on June 11. If convicted, she faces up to 10 years in prison.
